Cultivating an open, friendly, and benevolent attitude toward oneself, all beings, life and the world. Through graduated practice, our natural Metta state is cultivated and matures, nurtured by heartfelt feelings of understanding, warmth, and goodwill for our own and others’ experiences and the realities of life. Metta is a warm, strong heart, a deepened sense of love and kindness, a reclaiming of our loving bond and kinship with the broader web of life. Truly, Metta is falling in love with all this world and the Refuge that grows deep within because of this love.